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Posted by omniphasic 9 Ca (omniphasic@yahoo.com) on Sat, Jun 20, 09 at 20:14
This is the first year I'm growing Bidens and they are truly amazing!I put 3 quart sized ones in a 15 gallon container that I'm growing a Geijera in,and they've grown so immense and have bloomed non stop since March!They have literally thousands of blooms and the season is still young!
What are some of your favorites this year? |
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| I like reseeding annuals like larkspur, rose campion and verbena bonariensis. I have a lot of space where I fill gaps between the perennials. My zinnias are just starting to bloom and I love those... when I have photos, I'll post. The cosmos 'Sonata Pink' are fantastic! Wish I had planted more of those. In my full sun containers, I have purple lantana, petunias, ageratum and purple shield. In a partial shade bed, I've mixed impatiens, ageratum, purple heart with Encore Azaleas, purple heuchera, phlox 'robert poore' and creeping jenny. Cameron 
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| Beautiful! I keep changing my mind which ones I like best. That's par for the course, though. Much of it depends on their performance. I second your appreciation of bidens. They vary a bit with their growth habits, and some are cutting produced, some seed grown. I forgot entirely to do bidens this year and miss them! I think my orange Harmony new guinea impatiens outdid themselves. Also they look great partnered with pineapple yellow wizard coleus. Also very happy with my dreamland zinnias and mango portulaca, and orange appeal geraniums. Things look happy this year in the beds. Been a good spring so far. |
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| My favorite annual this year so far has to be mimulas. I have a bright yellow one in a semi shady spot and it is really brightening up that spot. My least favorite is yellow torenia and browallia as they both died within weeks after planting. |
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| I do love scaevola in pots and this year it has been particularly lovely. My favorite combo is with Lemonbird Cosmos. That clear yellow with the blue is terrific. For the second year in a row, I am using Profusion Zinnias, white, with Blue Salvia farinacea Rhea. They are in a half circle bed at my front entryway backed with a thick row of yellow Beautiful Edgings Daylilies. They look perfectly fresh and neat all the time, even in our 100 degrees we are having day after day, and will until frost. Hard to beat. I am using the Profusion Zinnias, Fire, with blue salvias in one of my other beds. The Fire holds its color better than any of the other colored Profusions I have tried. Cameron, if you see this, thanks for the tip on where to get the helioptrope Azure Skies. I got three plants and they are going like gangbusters. I am thrilled! |
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| Donna -- glad you like Azure Skies. I'm using it to edge a lot of beds this year since it blooms non-stop. Cameron |
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| What kind of annual is a Biden? I've never heard of it. |
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| Agastache 'Summer Sky' (Terra Nova says it's hardy to zone 7, but everyone else says that it's only hardy to zone 8. Regardless, I'm growing it in a container and it's great as a tall, spikey centerpiece.) Angelonia gets the best performance award (typically every year) Silver plectranthus Coleus (the one I've been growing, and overwintering, for the last two years is 'El Supremo') Larkspur is a mainstay, but this year we had so much rain that it got very tall and flopped all over. |
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| My favorite is Zebrina Malva. I grow it as an annual but it is a tender perennial in warmer zones. It reseeds readily but takes a while to grow so I save seed and start them in the greenhouse |
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| Zinnia Angustifolia - first year I've tried them and did them from seed. I was disappointed at first, but when I came back from a weeks vacation, I was so surprised. The white flowers were so showy, especially near the fiery red/orange cosmos (whose tag I lost...wish I knew what they were; I loved those too!) Made for great "filler" in the garden. Tithonia - planted a seedling as an afterthought on the west side of the house because I'd run out of room in the garden.WOW! I can see the flaming red flowers halfway down the block as I come home. Torenia - looked all over for this after reading rave reviews about it on this board. Finally found it at the end of June. What a terrific shade plant! It is absolutely lovely. Of course, always love a plethora of dahlias and although my verbena was absolutely pathetic this year, I will still try it again next year; it's one of my faves. |
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| Senorita Rosalita Cleome, a new annual for me, has recently had its own thread. It certainly has been remarkable this year in my front bed planted besides Orthosiphon stamineus - Cats Whiskers, my very very favourite. Cats whiskers is out of zone and I overwinter indoors. Another new annual this year also performing beautifully in the front bed is Sweet Sunshine Wave Petunia - a mass of flowers all season. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Sweet Sunshine petunia
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| Jacqui- where does one find Cats Whiskers, in the USA? |
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Hemnancy,
I'm not sure...My plant came from Maui - my sons live there.
I've read its easy to propagate from seeds and cuttings. I can dry some seeds and mail them. I doubt US Customs would allow plant material. Check Carolina Gardening Forum here at Gardenweb. I remember reading a thread posting from chapel hill gardener giving growing info. Jacqui |
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Hemnancy,
Here's a link to chapelhillgardener's 2006 posting |
Here is a link that might be useful: cats whiskers info
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| My favorites for this year for my partially shady garden have to be Troy's Gold Plectranthus ( bugs and slugs don't touch it ), Coral Swirl Impatiens, African gold Impatiens and surprisingly blue lobelia ( it's still blooming! ). Ones I won't try again: Coleus ( slug magnet ), Million bells ( aphid magnet ), petunias ( sticky and got mildew ). |
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- Posted by mxk3 z5b/6 MI (My Page) on
Tue, Sep 8, 09 at 15:21
| A new-to-me plant that garnered a lot of compliments was Persian Shield. I had it in a decorative pot, and got so many comments on it. Funny, though - can't say I liked it all that much even though everyone else seemed to. My heliotrope were stupendous this year! |
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| I had a mid summer surprise when I realized that Browallia americanus had seeded into several of my deck pots. It has bloomed its heart out all summer long in full sun. I had no idea. I thought it required part shade. Will be saving that seed for sure. |
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| I guess I would have to say Nasturtiums for my favorite annual since they have such large seeds and sprout so well, and are edible to boot. They look great, I'm growing some of the Alaska variegated ones. I'm debating growing some low-growing ground cover type Silenes next year like cardinalis Ruby Flax or colorata Dwf Pink Star. Has anyone tried them, and how do they do in dry soil and part shade? |
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| It's a tie between 'Haight Ashbury' hibiscus and 'Sunrise' anagalis. The hibiscus gets about 3 feet tall and has wonderfully variegated pink to green maple-like leaves. The anagalis gets only about 3 inches tall and has the most wonderful small orange flowers. About the same color as the orange you eat. I hope to find both again next y ear. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Hibiscus picture
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| I have many favorites, but this year it is Rudbeckia Cappuccino. It grows about 18 inches and is covered in large--3 to 4 inch daisy-like flowers that contain every color you link with fall blended together--simply stunning |
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First time I grew this, Blue Flax. True blue flowers and they spread. No maintaince whatsoever, grows in poor soil.
I hope they seed so I can have them next year. |
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I enjoyed making combinations this season in my vegetable garden with Nicotiana 'purple sensation'.
Ageratum 'red top' I liked with Veronica 'red fox' and Echinacea 'white swan' in my perennial border. |
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| Late season success story. I sowed some Durango Marigold seeds in mid August and they started blooming this week. They are simply spectacular. You would swear they are chrysanthemums, but they will bloom until hard frost. I tried the yellow (pure, sunny yellow. no gold) and "flame". It is really something. The petals are a deep orange with a wide border of yellow. The plants get about 12 to 16 inches tall and the flowers are 2 to 2 1/2 inches in diameter. I'll be planting them again! |
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| The annuals that i enjoyed growing in my garden this season are.....Angelonias,zinnias,tithonias,ageratums. |
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| A couple that I really enjoyed this year: Sweet Peas - Burpee's Galaxy mix. They exceeded my expectations as the centerpiece in my boulevard garden. Would have liked blue, but we got scarlet/crimson, rose pink, red and white. They grew pretty tall and lasted most of the summer. (usually I have bad luck with sweet peas and they die in July.) They made a nice fragrance too. Rex Begonia - Capricorn. I just love the leaves. Makes me excited just to look at it. Doesn't even need to flower, but it does. It has pink flowers. I'm going to try to overwinter this one. |
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| As the season ends, I have to say that Benary's Giant Zinnias were my favorite annuals. They have been amazing! Cameron |
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| Autumn Joy sunflowers were lovely for me this year. I also love my Profusion Fire zinnias and my tithonias. Honorable mention also goes to Hyacinth bean vines which went crazy for me this year. |
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| Coleus Henna--truly was no deadheading required.
My most stunning planter box this year was a combo of
Callibrochoa--tried one that was all lemon yellow, just spilled all over the container which also had another favorite----
Lantana Confetti..and a creeping lavender lantana.
Perennial--sedum likendense I love to try odd tropicals too like musas, eucomis, papyrus, annual Salvias esp the greggii as they are scented..oh I could go on and on. But I must say I still love the old stand bys---dahlias and zinnias. They don't hold up well for me--get fungal--but in the mountains in Pennsylvania where my parents live--oh they are show stoppers! |
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| My nasturtiums were fabulous this year, as were the purple candytuft, nicotianas and the cosmos. All outdid themselves. I also planted impatiens balsamina but it was only ok. I planted impatiens gladulifera too and it did very well beside the garage but I don't think I would put it in the front flowerbed. It got to be 7' tall! I love reseeding annuals. I am going to plantsalpigliosis next year too. I am going to Google bidens and see what they look like and if I can grow them. |
Here is a link that might be useful: My country blog
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